La Secchia rapita

La Secchia rapita (Eng. The Stolen Bucket ) is a dramma eroicomico in three acts by Antonio Salieri to a text by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini after the eponymous epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni.

The premiere took place at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 21 October 1772. Later the piece in Mannheim ( 1774), Dresden ( 1775) and Modena ( 1787) came to the stage. The only modern reissue of this work took place in December 1990 at the Teatro Comunale di Modena, conducted by Frans Brüggen instead.

Unusual color shows the instrumentation of the work: Salieri is waiting in the score, among other things with numerous tone-painting effects and extended passages for solo instruments and surprised by the in the history of music probably first use of three instead of two timpani. The parodic subject comes Salieri opposed by the satirical overstatement long-standing pattern. This is reflected in the voices about by particularly brilliant coloratura from. In two cases, Salieri has usually improvised by the singers cadences " written out " and incorporated additional instrumental parts.

The overture of the work can now be found more often on concert programs and CD productions again, some arias from the opera were taken from the Italian mezzo- soprano Cecilia Bartoli.

Other settings of this substance come from Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi (1794 ) and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. Another setting is by Giulio Ricordi under the pseudonym Julesburg My on a libretto by Renato Simoni from the year 1910.

• Opera by title
• Opera in Italian
• Opera by Antonio Salieri
• Opera of the 18th century
• Music 1772